Non-Fiction & Prose
The Guardian (article)
Fitting into neither of the pink-and-blue boxes offered on my birth certificate, my gender exists beyond; a box that is yet to be ticked, a colour that has no name.
Prose Poems With Dance Breaks:
On Longing (reflective essay)
Creative output of my Mid-Career Fellowship with Westerly Magazine.
A Body Is Always Reaching (essay)
I perceive gender as a dance routine that many subjects learn, rehearse, and then continually replicate until they eventually forget that someone else invented the steps.
Shortlisted in the 2021 Deakin University Non-Fiction Prize.
Published by Kill Your Darlings.
Refinery29 (article)
(Aus, UK, US)
When I wear my glitter mesh crop top and look in the mirror, I am whispering to myself, this is my trans body and it is capable of joy and desire. I am building my own mirror.
Further Publication Highlights (Non-Fiction & Prose)
2023 ‘Dear Lover’ (micro-fiction) in Dear Lover (Hachette). Edited by Samuel Johnson OAM.
2022 ‘A Body Is Always Reaching' (creative non-fiction), Kill Your Darlings.
https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/a-body-is-always-reaching/
2022 ‘Portrait Of The Queer Body As Difficult Lace' (extended poetic sequence), Meniscus Journal 9(2): 120-122.
2022 ‘Prose Poems as Witness Statements: The relevance of revision, wounded language and wordlessness in poems that document sexual
violence’ (conference paper), presented at Poetry On The Move Symposium, 22nd September 2022, Gorman House Canberra.
2021 ‘Prose Poems With Dance Breaks: On Longing' (reflective essay), Westerly Magazine.
https://westerlymag.com.au/prose-poems-with-dance-breaks-on-longing/
2021 Interviewed and quoted as an expert on competitive poetry slams for Routledge publication Spoken Word in the UK. Eds Dr Lucy English
and Dr Jack McGowan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429330223
2021 ‘Tiny House For Sale, Perfect Fit For You And Your Muse’ (micro-fiction), Pulp Fiction. Spineless Wonders.
Winner of the people’s choice award.
2020 Review of ‘Of Memory And Furniture’ by Bron Bateman. Westerly Magazine. https://westerlymag.com.au/of-memory-and-furniture/
2020 Rebecca Balchin, Deborah Hersh, Jamaica Grantis & Maddie Godfrey (2020): ‘Ode to confidence’: Poetry groups for dysarthria in
multiple sclerosis, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 22(3) 347–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1739333
2019 ‘Call Me Pink Parfait, Like The Paint Swatch’ (short story), SCUM Magazine.
2018 ‘Intimacies’ (short story) in Stories of Perth print anthology. Seizure: Brio Publishing.
2017 ‘There’s a Poem on the Stove’ (essay) in Westerly Magazine: Flux special edition.